Reduced Body Mass Index
June 24th, 2019
Overview
Body mass index <18.5
Associated with Being Underweight
- Hypoglycaemia
- Vitamin deficiency - scurvy, rickets
- Bone marrow suppression - anaemia, thrombocytopaenia, immunosuppression
- Cardiac - arrhythmia, MI
- Neurological - cognitive impairment, peripheral neuropathy, Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome
- Muscle wasting
- Endocrine - osteoporosis, amenorrhoea
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